Unsuri
Abu'l-Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi (died 1039/1040) was a 10th–11th-century Persian poet. Said to have been born in Balkh, today located in modern-day Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni, and was given the title Malik us-Shu'ara (King of Poets) under Mahmud. His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which only 2500 remain today.
Unsuri
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- Unsuri was born, sources differ on the date (in 980 and in 970).
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980
Unsuri born at Balkh.
1039
Unsuri died on 1 January 1039.
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